* CTIA Wireless Show: As the last of the Jazz Fest fans leave the city, New Orleans is gearing up for another big event. The CTIA Wireless 2012 show opens Tuesday and runs through Thursday. The conference is expected to be one of the largest meeting groups New Orleans has ever hosted and the largest since 2005.

* Farewell white pages?: State regulators are considering dropping a requirement that telephone companies distribute residential phone books each year, as people increasingly turn to the Internet to hunt down a phone number or an address.

* Grocery business: After vowing to open more than 1,000 stores selling fresh fruit and vegetables in underserved urban neighborhoods, or "food deserts," grocers have opened a fraction of them, putting in jeopardy Michelle Obama's effort to improve food choices for low-income Americans.

* Speaking of food: When it comes to snack food, what's popular in the U.S. doesn't always work everywhere. The Associated Press has written an article about the interesting tweaks food companies make to products to help them sell overseas. Think Lay's potato chips dusted in caviar and crab flavors, and Oreos stuffed with mango and orange cream.